Press

Receipt Wranglers
Plenty of smartphone apps let you digitize that overwhelming pile of paper receipts you need come tax season. These three go further, by organizing electronic and printed records alike.
The Wall Street Journal 03/22/2013
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Pics Or It Didn’t Happen: YC-Backed HD Trade Services Lets Small Logistics Providers Track Shipments Like The Big Boys
TechCrunch 08/17/2012
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Stay on Top of Your Spending with OneReceipt App
The Washington Post 04/28/2012
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HD Trade Services Puts the Brakes on Trade Fraud
VentureBeat 04/18/2012
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Four Standout Companies From DEMO 2012 Enterprise Segment
Forbes 04/18/2012
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Top 25 Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Colleges for 2012
Entrepreneur.com 2012
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UMD Ranked Among Nation's Best in Entrepreneurship Education in 2011
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine named the University of Maryland as one of the nation's top schools for entrepreneurially-minded students
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Squarespace Named to Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies for Third Straight Year
Inc.com 08/2011

2011 RANKING: #438
Squarespace

3-year growth: 795%
2010 Revenue: $11.7 million
2007 Revenue: $1.3 million
Employees: 52
Employee growth: 47

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Squarespace Ranked #4 Among NYC's Tech Giants
New York Post 08/2011
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Mtech Announces Winners of the 2011 University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
Hinman CEOs company Trade Assurance International wins second place and $5,000 in the undergraduate division
Mtech press release 05/2011
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Business Rx: Expanding refrigerator rentals on campus
The Washington Post 04/2011
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Business Rx: Designing a strategy to find investors
The Washington Post 03/2011
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Mtech's Dr. James V. Green Wins 3E Learning Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Competition
Mtech press release 01/2011  
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Two Mtech Hinman CEOs Companies, Squarespace and Lurn, Named to Inc. 500 List for Second Straight Year.
Mtech Press Release 08/2010
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Business Rx: This time, the entrepreneur does all the talking.
The Washington Post 08/10
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Online prescriptions catching on, but paper still reigns.
Baltimore Business Journal 08/2010
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Trade Assurance International, a company started by three Hinman CEOs students, is Featured in Business Rx.
The Washington Post 08/10
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Hinman CEOs Student Greg Waldstreicher Named One of the Top Five College Entrepreneurs of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Mtech Press Release 07/2010
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Park Place, an iPhone application developed by Hinman CEOs student Jesse Leikin, is covered in an article about parking costs in Batimore and ways to make parking cheaper and easier.
Baltimore Business Journal 07/10
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Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index Ventures
TechCrunch 07/10
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Two Hinman CEOs Students Earn Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Mtech press release 04/10
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Hinman CEOs student Alison Willman's product idea presentation at a recent Pitch Dingman is covered (includes video).
The Washington Post 04/10
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Lurn Inc. (formerly known as Affiliate Classroom Inc.), a leading provider of e-learning content and technology and a graduate of Mtech’s VentureAccelerator Program andTechnology Advancement Program (TAP) incubator, was named one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine.
Inc. Magazine 08/09
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The company, founded by Hinman CEOs alumnus Anik Singal, placed 216th on the list with a 5-year revenue growth of 950.8%.

Hinman CEOs alumnus Anik Singal is named one of Businessweek.com's Top Five 2008 Best Entrepreneurs 25 and Under
BusinessWeek 09/08
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The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship and Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) spurred the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business to a No. 9 rank in the business specialty category for entrepreneurship in U.S. News & World Report's annual America's Best Colleges 2009 issue.
Reuters 08/08 (press release)
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The Hinman CEOs Program is cited in an article about living-learning programs.
The Baltimore Sun (07/08)
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Dr. David Barbe, the first faculty director for the Hinman CEOs Program and current executive director of Mtech, is profiled as a transformational leader.
The Gazette (06/08)
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Release details the launch of the new Hinman CEOs Alumni Fund, which offers grants for Hinman CEOs students launching companies.
Los Angeles Times via PR Newswire (04/08)
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Release details the launch of the new Hinman CEOs Alumni Fund, which offers grants for Hinman CEOs students launching companies.
USA Today (04/08)
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The Hinman CEOs Program is cited in the October issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, in the Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges for 2007 rankings by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Entrepreneur Magazine (10/07)
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The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), as well as its Hinman CEOs Program and University of Maryland Technology Start-Up Boot Camp, are cited in the September issue of Fortune Small Business Magazine in its rankings of America's Best College for Entrepreneurs.
Fortune Small Business (09/07)
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The Hinman CEOs Program, as well as Mtech Ventures' VentureAccelerator and Technology Advancement Program intiatives, are discussed in a story titled "Teaching Entrepreneurs." Hinman alumnus Anik Singal is also featured.
Baltimore Sun (07/23/07)
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The Hinman CEOs-run summer entrepreneurship course is featured in an article entitled "Sir, Here's Why You Should Give Me $2 Million for My New Business: Ideas and Pitches in Entrepreneurial Course for Teens."
Washington Post (07/09/06)
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The Hinman CEOs program is discussed within the framework of creating an entrepreneurial community in an article entitled "Entrepreneurville: How a city neighborhood represents a generation of workers out on their own."
Baltimore Sun (04/30/06)
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The Hinman CEOs Program is featued in a special report on young entrepreneurs entitled "The Startup Bug Strikes Earlier."
BusinessWeek (10/31/05)
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Hinman CEOs Program featured in an article entitled: "Total-immersion business ed; Colleges create residences where students can stay in business mode night and day."
Christian Science Monitor (11/02/04)
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Squarespace, a company founded by Hinman CEOs student Anthony Casalena, is featured as the weekly startup profile in the Washington Post.
Washington Post (09/13/04)
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The Hinman CEOs Program is the subject of an extensive feature article written by the Business Gazette.
Business Gazette (07/02/04)
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Hinman CEOs companies MindSay and Squarespace are mentioned in an article announcing the six finalists for the University of Maryland's Businesss Plan Competition, which is facilitated by the Hinman Program.
Baltimore Business Journal (05/04/04)
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Hinman CEOs graduate Adam Ostrow is quoted in an article entitled "Blogging for fun and profit." Ostrow is the founder of the social networking and blogging company MindSay.
CIOz Australia
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Anthony Casalena, a student in the Hinman CEOs Program, is featured in an article entitled "University of Maryland student in a class by himself."
Washington Business Journal (04/23/04)
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Hinman CEOs company Squarespace Inc. was mentioned in an article about services such as Google's Gmail service, in which the writer says "Squarespace simply blows the doors off what .Mac is offering right now [for web publishing]."
BusinessWeek (04/15/04)
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Hinman CEOs company Squarespace Inc. was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal online edition's Loose Wire column, in which the write said "This is the kind of software that the Internet has been crying out for."
Wall Street Journal Online (04/05/04)
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Hinman CEOs company Squarespace is mentioned in a Washington Business Journal column leading with "Blogging is the reality TV of the Internet."
Washington Business Journal (03/12/04)
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The Hinman CEOs Program was featured on the front page of The Boston Globe's business section in an article entitled "Great ideas 101."
The Boston Globe (12/03/03)
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Students have everything they need to start business in the Hinman Program, according to an article on Bankrate.com's web site entitled "Paying for College."
Bankrate.com (2003)
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Hinman CEOs student Joy Limpawuchara led a group of 27 students - mostly from the University of Maryland - to the town of Hanapepe to help the Habitat for Humanity build two homes for needy residents.
Kauai Gardens (Hawaii) Island News
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The University's Third Annual Business Plan Competition, managed by the Hinman CEOs Program, was covered in an extensive story by The Baltimore Sun.
The Baltimore Sun (5/13/03)
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The Seattle Times printed the Washington Post story (here, below) on the Hinman CEOs Program on Monday, December 2.
The Seattle Times(12/02/02)
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The Chicago Tribune printed the Washington Post story (here, below) on the Hinman CEOs Program in its Sunday edition on December 1, 2002.
The Chicago Tribune(12/01/02)
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The Hinman CEOs Program was featured in a wonderful story in The Washington Post on October 30, in an an article entitled "Dorm for Dreamers: Maryland Program Turns Budding Entrepeneurs Into Campus CEOs."
The Washington Post (10/30/02)
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TechTV aired a feature story about Hinman CEOs student Terrence Hines and his company iNTEAM Sports in an article entitled "Dorm Room Dot Com Booms."
TechTV (04/24/02)
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The Baltimore Sun covered the Hinman CEOs Program in a broad article that discusses how the program is nurtuting the business leaders of the next generation, in an article entitled "Program hones skills of budding entrepreneurs: Engineering students and business majors paired at College Park."
The Baltimore Sun (04/22/02)
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The Washington Post featured the Hinman CEOs Program and student Ilya Zusin, who joined the start-up company Articulation Innovations, in an article entitled "Entrepreneurial Students More Grounded: As Dot-Com Dreams Fade, Business Basics Come to Fore."
The Washington Post (03/19/02)
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The Washington Post highlighted student Hinman CEOs student Terrence Hines and his company iNTEAM Sports (now Invision Sports Network), in an article entitled "In the Dorm Room, Studying For a Million-Dollar Exam."
The Washington Post (03/19/02)
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Potomac Tech Journal featured Hinman CEOs student Ryan Ockuly and the success of Blue Wave Semiconductors, a start-up company he joined as a junior in 2001, in an article entitled "Growing entrepreneurs at the University of Maryland."
Potomac Tech Journal (12/10/01)
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Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the entrepreneurial spirit and high-tech environment of the Hinman CEOs Program in a large article entitled "'Electronic Dorm' Gives U. of Maryland Students an Entrepreneurial Environment."
Chronicle of Higher Education (12/05/01)
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The Hinman CEOs Program was featured in a gorgeous article entitled "Cultivating the American Dream: The Hinman CEOs Program at the University of Maryland," in the September issue of Higher Learning.
Higher Learning (09/01)
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CNN featured the Hinman CEOs Program on both its domestic and international Headline News programs. This exciting piece was also the lead article, entitled "Dorm-room determination: Campus careerists," on the Career section of CNN's web site.
CNN: The Cable News Network (06/08/01)
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Network World Fusion covered the high-tech environment the Hinman CEOs Program offers in an article entitled "IP: Big protocol on campus," which discusses how universities are making the most of advanced IP multimedia services.
Network World Fusion (05/21/01)
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Maryland Daily Record announced the winners of the first University of Maryland Business Plan Competition--facilitated by the Hinman CEOs Program--in an article entitled "And the winners are ..."
Maryland Daily Record (05/03/01)
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Washington Techway did a special article about the eDorm, the high-tech, incubator-like environment that Hinman CEOs students live in, in an article entitled "Wired dorm for students."
Washington Techway (12/11/00)
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Maryland Daily Record ran a large article on the Hinman CEOs Program when it launched during the fall of 2000 entitled "University of Maryland's New Entrepreneurs Program Matches Brainstormers With Tech & Experts."
Maryland Daily Record (10/28/00)
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Business Week Magazine interviewed Dr. Robert Baum the program's co-director, in an article about the Hinman CEOs Program entitled "Entrepreneurs Are Both Born and Made."
Business Week Magazine (10/10/00)
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The Diamondback the University of Maryland's independent student newspaper helped introduce the Hinman CEOs Program to the Maryland campus with an article entitled "Hinman program helps new business leaders."
The Diamondback (09/07/00)
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